I was....

[101A]

In my living room getting ready for work; I had just put my oldest boy on the bus to school, and had given my two younger kids oatmeal - and poured coffee for me and my wife when I turned on the "Today" show.

Where were you?

[SpurNation]

Ahh. The serinity of the morning before the chaos of the day.

Coffee for my wife too. Watching the sun rise on our back patio in the coolness of a morning breeze.

That of course before I came online into this forum. :coffee

[Winehole23]

It was a Monday. A day off work for me. My wife had just gone to work and I was drinking my morning coffee when I turned on the TV. The second tower hadn't been hit yet, and the whole thing was being discussed as if it were an accident.

[coyotes_geek]

I was at work and had the radio on listening to sports talk. After the news broke we all gathered in a conference room and watched the coverage on tv.

[I. Hustle]

I was at my desk at work. I was one of the few that had the internet and while everyone gathered at my boss' desk I stayed glued to my computer to see what was going on. I lived in Austin and the radio dj that I listened to just kept saying how scared he was all day for about a week. It sucked and it freaked me out too but I wish that guy would have done something to distract everyone as opposed to just constantly scaring everyone with his crying and constant reminders of how terrified he was.
He got fired like less than a month later.

[doobs]

It was a Monday. A day off work for me. My wife had just gone to work and I was drinking my morning coffee when I turned on the TV. The second tower hadn't been hit yet, and the whole thing was being discussed as if it were an accident.

It was a Tuesday, I think.

[ratm1221]

Surprisingly I didn't hear about what happened until late afternoon. I was off work and I hadn't turned on the TV all day. My girlfriend came home and said that she had been trying to call me all day. The battery was dead on my phone. By that time it was fully understood what was going on, so I missed the confusion. I'm actually glad I didn't see it live. It was hard enough watching the endless replays.

[manufan10]

I was a senior in high school. We were in the library watching it on tv when the second plane hit. We were all in shock at first, and we were wondering if it was just a replay, but then we realized that it was a second plane that hit.

[balli]

I was asleep and me ma came and woke me up with three words, "we've been bombed." I sat up, half asleep like, WTF? I didn't know if she was talking about Utah or someplace else. It took a minute for me to find out she was talking about NYC. This was really early so there wasn't much info yet. I took a shower and was listening to the radio and they announced it was a plane. My buddy Chandler came and picked me up for school and hadn't heard about it yet. What a crazy day.

[Oh, Gee!!]

on the way to work listening to AM sports talk (can't remember the show). the idiot on the radio made some stupid joke about a plane flying into the first tower and seconds later the second one hit.

[Winehole23]

It was a Tuesday, I think.You're correct.

[manufan10]

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[DarkReign]

At work, at my desk, listening to Drew & Mike (a monring show here in Detroit).

Drew suddenly interrupts the program with a very questioning tone "The WTC has just been hit by a plane?!"

Minutes later after Mike (a pilot) was explaining how this shouldnt happen, the next one hit.

After that, work stopped. We had every employee in the conference room, huddled around a 13" television.

Fucked up day, indeed.

[DarrinS]

Driving to work when I hear on the radio that a plane had struck one of the towers of the WTC. I figure it's some private plane. I get to work and everyone is going ape shit, watching everything happen live (or almost live) on the internet. A few of our guys are on morning flights to east and west coast. My wife calls and asks if I'm seeing this. While we're on the phone, the 2nd plane hits and everyone now realizes what's happening. A few of us engineers gather around and talk about whether we think the towers will collapse. One of the more senior engineers guesses that since the planes struck so high, they will be unable to put out the fire, and the structure will be seriously compromised. We are all sent home and I watch the unimaginable happen on TV.

[to21]

We had just finished with a staff meeting at work. After which a co-worker got the call that a plane flew into one of the towers. Little did we know it wasn't a small one we originally thought.

[to21]

I work for a school district so the one thing I remember is going to a school to look at a server and parents running in and pulling their kids out of school....it was chaos. Then thinking maybe I should go get mine, then hearing my Mom had already went to pick them up.

I get goose bumps writing about it even now.

[Cry Havoc]

asleep in my dorm room. My mother called me and said I should turn on the TV, that a plane had hit the WTC. I thought it was surely some tiny prop job with just the pilot who was doing an airshow or something.

The TV came on, and I was about to close my eyes and pass back out.

Then I saw the tower. I sat bolt upright, and yelled at my roommate to wake up.

We watched everything from then on. I don't remember the second plane hitting because news reports were so scattered and confused. The media really went to pieces quickly. Everyone on my honor's floor was just kind of stunned. Then the RA announced that classes were canceled for the day.

I watched for a few hours, then went outside to throw a frisbee. I couldn't handle or process what was going on at the time.

[MannyIsGod]

I was at work. Watched the 2nd plane hit live on TV there. Took worried calls from family members of our employees in NYC for awhlie then came home and watched the coverage for what seemed like an endless day.

[hater]

I was in a training class 5 minutes from the pentagon.

a dude was chatting on his pc and told our class that a plane hit the WTC in NY. we all thought it was a Cesna and didn't give a shit. Then someone walked in our clas and told us what is going on.

We were on a high rise so we walked over to an office with view of the pentagon and could see the smoke and firetrucks.

[Cry Havoc]

I was at work. Watched the 2nd plane hit live on TV there. Took worried calls from family members of our employees in NYC for awhlie then came home and watched the coverage for what seemed like an endless day.

Yeah. After we came back in from throwing, most of the floor was awake until 4 am when people started rapidly falling asleep sitting up or just passing out.

That was a rough day, but it was also kind of amazing. Our entire campus changed overnight. I saw more fondness, hugs, kind behavior etc. that week than I probably ever have or will again.

My entire dorm floor really helped each other through the experience.

[sam1617]

I was a junior in HS in band. I heard from someone that a plane had hit a tower in the WTC and immediately dismissed it as being some idiot in a Cessna or something. Then I heard that another had hit and knew something was up. I spent most of 2nd period watching TV in the library. Honestly, I don't remember being sad particularly. I just remember being so extremely mad that ANYONE would ever do something like that. Now, not much anger left... Just sadness...

[Wild Cobra]

I was at work, ready to go home. Just got out of the clean room, and logged into the internet at my desk and saw the news. Got home, and watched Tower 2 collapse.

[DarrinS]

Sucked for a couple of our employees that were in-flight at that time. Two of them had to land immediately (not at their destination) and had to rent cars to dive back -- California to S.A.

[Stringer_Bell]

Freshman in high school.

I remember being really happy on the drive to school, listening to America "Ventura Highway" in my dad's truck. I had just talked with a girl I had a crush on the night before, wasn't going anywhere but still nice to do. I was in Biology when the first tower was hit and it was announced over the intercom. Everyone gasped, but we thought it was a terrible accident. Then in Spanish class, we watched live video and the principal locked the school down. This was no accident. I was thinking of how happy I was that day and how fucking crazy the world started to feel...but then I realized the world hadn't changed, it was only us. It was like realizing for the first that your parents are human beings and not superpowered beings, everything felt so vulnerable.

[angel_luv]

At TBI ( Bible College) in the lobby of the cafeteria, where a group of us were having a group prayer to start the day.
The Blue Jean Cafe ( cafeteria) had televisions on the news stations during breakfast.

Just as our prayer mtg ended, the news was reporting the first crash as the live coverage showed the second plane crash occurring.

[nuclearfm]

In class. It was subsequently canceled, went home and saw the second plane hit.

[angel_luv]

I remember when I heard the newscaster talk about the first plane hitting ( before the second crash occurred), that I got a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach and I knew- just knew- that the crash had not been an accident.

I turned to one of my classmates and told them what I was feeling. Just as I finished the sentence, the second plane crashed in the building, underlining my point.

It was so surreal and sickening- the whole sequence.

[nkdlunch]

http://www.weird-websites.info/Real-or-Fake/Real-or-Fake-Pictures/Tourist-on-World-Trade-Center-9-11-01.jpg

[Cry Havoc]

http://www.weird-websites.info/Real-or-Fake/Real-or-Fake-Pictures/Tourist-on-World-Trade-Center-9-11-01.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourist_guy

[SA210]

In college taking Radio, after the 2nd plane hit, they released us to go home. I remember, this was before I had a car, I was walking to the bus stop and people were crying and looked scared, even as I went through downtown on the way home, I just saw people look lost and sad. Sad day.

I got home and watched TV for the next week, almost day and night. As much as I could. I did get many calls to enlist right away from recruiters. Actually do remember thinking they might bring back the draft.

[florige]

http://www.weird-websites.info/Real-or-Fake/Real-or-Fake-Pictures/Tourist-on-World-Trade-Center-9-11-01.jpg



Wow that is a scary photo.

[Yonivore]

I was pulling into the office parking lot when I heard, on the radio, a small plane had crashed into one of the World Trade Center towers. I parked, walked into my office and turned on the television – CNN or FOXNews (I don’t remember), probably FOXNews because that’s where it remained for the rest of the day…but, I could have started out on CNN. Anyway, when I turned on the television, they were broadcast what I thought was videotape of the crash. It didn’t register with me that one of the towers was already smoking but, I do remember thinking, that’s not a small plane. Then, I realized the other tower was already hit and it immediately sunk in.

I moved the television to a common area, assemble staff and gave them the option to watch, go home, or stay at their respective stations and conduct business.

Most of us stayed glued to the television for the rest of the day. I don’t think the phone rang that day except for when one of our friends or relatives called to talk about what was unfolding.

I also made a couple of attempts to call a relative of mine that, at the time, lived in Queens and worked in lower Manhatten. For obvious reasons, I wasn’t successful. I wasn’t particularly concerned because they didn’t work in the immediate vicinity of the WTC but, nonetheless, I felt it important to connect.

I finally just called their immediate family, back here in Texas, who had already heard from them.

I vividly remember watching when the first town collapsed as the on-air personality was jabbering about something. It was surreal…

We’ve all seen the images and footage over the years so, beyond that, I’m not sure what I remember from that day or what was seen at a later date.

[TeyshaBlue]

I was pulling into the office parking lot when I heard, on the radio, a small plane had crashed into one of the World Trade Center towers. I parked, walked into my office and turned on the television – CNN or FOXNews (I don’t remember), probably FOXNews because that’s where it remained for the rest of the day…but, I could have started out on CNN. Anyway, when I turned on the television, they were broadcast what I thought was videotape of the crash. It didn’t register with me that one of the towers was already smoking but, I do remember thinking, that’s not a small plane. Then, I realized the other tower was already hit and it immediately sunk in.

I moved the television to a common area, assemble staff and gave them the option to watch, go home, or stay at their respective stations and conduct business.

Most of us stayed glued to the television for the rest of the day. I don’t think the phone rang that day except for when one of our friends or relatives called to talk about what was unfolding.

I also made a couple of attempts to call a relative of mine that, at the time, lived in Queens and worked in lower Manhatten. For obvious reasons, I wasn’t successful. I wasn’t particularly concerned because they didn’t work in the immediate vicinity of the WTC but, nonetheless, I felt it important to connect.

I finally just called their immediate family, back here in Texas, who had already heard from them.

I vividly remember watching when the first town collapsed as the on-air personality was jabbering about something. It was surreal…

We’ve all seen the images and footage over the years so, beyond that, I’m not sure what I remember from that day or what was seen at a later date.

At work...drinking coffee and listening to WBAP in Dallas. When they broke in with news, I immediately went to CNN's website. The server was being crushed so I went to MSNBC. I was one of the few on my floor that could get a good connection. Everyone gathered around my desk and we just sat there and watched in silence. When the second plane hit, people around me screamed in shock. More than a few started to cry. I guess we sat there for a couple of hours before any of us thought about leaving.

[iggypop123]

woken up by mom since i was in vacation from school. saw the burning from buidling one. then saw plane 2 live. then tv shut down for 3 or 4 days luckily i had my simpsons dvd's